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Nuzzel, the social news service from Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, is now open to anyone who wants to join. The service first launched in the fall 2012, and was previously invitation-only. Unlike many of Abrams' previous ventures, Nuzzel is not...

Jonathan Abrams could have gone down as one of the world's most successful tech founders. Instead, he spends his time reading and sharing dozens of news stories each week about tech companies more successful than his own. On any given day, you might ...

The year is 2012, and candidates are all but required to have some sort of "social-media strategy." The number of followers they've racked up on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram stand as rough barometers of the campaigns' health. But just two presiden...

It's been a long road for Facebook. What began as an intimate platform has turned into a social networking giant serving more than 900 million users. Facebook may be cashing in on its intial public offering this week, but it wasn't the first to intro...

How many articles have been written about Facebook in its eight-year history? Impossible to tell -- by the time you came up with an estimate, no doubt, another dozen would have been added to the list. It is, at least, easy to pinpoint the very first ...

Sharing widget AddThis, which is installed on more than 7 million domains and reaches more than one billion users per month, released an infographic Wednesday with some interesting statistics about about our sharing habits. Impressively, 44% of share...

YouTube has come out on top in a ranking of 2010's most buzzed-about websites and social media services. This year was the year of video- and photo-sharing; 2010 saw the rise -- in volume and positive mentions -- of YouTube and Flickr and the fall of...

Facebook has acquired a broad set of patents on social networking covering the basic functions of just about any social app, ranging from friend lists to the news feed. The patents were acquired from Friendster, which has been awarded a wide array of...

The Onion's hilarious Today Show-style parody, Today Now, has made us guffaw with instant Internet classics like the faux segment on how to stalk your kids using Facebook and Twitter. This time the social network in the limelight is social media's lo...

Just a few days ago we heard rumours about the imminent sale of Friendster, one of the first-generation social networks that originally kicked off the craze. Through self-reinvention the site has managed to stay relevant to a large audience in Asia, ...

Do you remember Friendster? Several years ago, it was one of the hottest startups and social networks around, long before MySpace or Facebook hit the scene. Google even tried to acquire it back in 2003. But while it's on the decline in the western wo...

In what could be seen as a victory for doers, and a bit of a setback for thinkers, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has made a rather significant ruling on what is and isn’t patentable. The court ruled against a man who was attemptin...

Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase totaling more than 60 million across the continent. Today, the company is announcing that Facebook applicat...

Friendster is back. In full effect? The social network that helped start online social networking as the mainstream phenomenon we now experience has reportedly raised $20 million, according to The New York Times. Even though Friendster may not make y...

Friendster is launching its mobile version of its network. Whew. I expected this a lot sooner, considering Friendster's veteran status and leading position in the Asian market, where mobile networks and devices are better than most other areas in the...

Several months have passed since we gave the social gaming developer Bunchball a headline. Now we’re hearing from The Deal of its recent capture of $4 million in investments from return funders Granite Ventures and Adobe Ventures. Over the last two y...

Husband and wife start social networking site. Husband and wife spend a couple of years growing social networking site to eventually serve 40 million users. Husband and wife sell social networking site to AOL for $850m. Husband and wife walk away fro...

Friendster has finally made it to Japan and Korea. The U.S. social network is now available in English, traditional and simple Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Korean, and these happen to be the most important languages for a global social network to b...

Friendster has just announced a traditional Chinese version of its social network. This is obviously a move for global expansion, to a part of the world that is high in population and has a large amount of Internet users in a target demographic. And ...

You no longer have to pimp your own profile to get new friends. Friendster's offering a way to do it for you with its new Fan Profiles option. With Friendster Fan Profiles, it's taken the best tools of MySpace and Facebook and combined it to let you ...

A quick update on the Socializr-Evite row that Kristen reported on in April: Evite was threatening to sue the Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams' startup Socializr over the use of a series of invite designs including the snowflake pattern below (the ...

Friendster will launch a new service on Thursday: classifieds and job listings. Coming straight after what appears to be a partnership between Oodle and Facebook to do a similar thing, Friendster is partnering with OLX to provide listings for jobs, r...

Tabber is a social networking profile aggregator of sorts, offering a way to import your contacts and keep track of what's going on in their lives from a central location. Tabber promotes itself as an address book, and allows you to automatically gra...

ProfileFly has just launched another social networking aggregator page that has a decent concept, but poor execution. Ever since we've had more than one option for social networks, there have been sites aiming to provide a one-stop shop for keeping t...

OtherEgo, which launched about an hour ago, is a place for all your social networking profiles. While OtherEgo is a social network itself, it's most defining feature is the ability to add your other social network profiles into your OtherEgo account....

Update: Friendster confirmed that this patent has been awarded - look for an announcement soon. They've filed for a dozen or so of these, they say. We're still waiting to hear back from Friendster about the context of this one, but I came across what...

Fresh from a deal with MySpace to power the site's search and ads, Google is set to score another big partnership. Friendster CEO Kent Lindstrom revealed today that the social network is going to partner with Google - the search giant will power Frie...

The Internet Address Book, which launched this week, is a new service from the Netherlands that brings together all your online identities in one place - social networking URLs, instant messaging IDs and web addresses. You create an account, then add...

MeeVee, the Internet TV startup based in Burlingame, is launching a new set of features today. The first is a "My Interests" module that appears down the left hand side of the page - this gives you quick access to your favorites, and MeeVee can also ...

Miami-based Flixn, which launched late yesterday, is an easy-to-use tool for recording webcam videos and posting them to social networks, forums, blogs and websites. Suggested platforms include MySpace, Blogger, Friendster, TypePad and eBay. Being Fl...

Dogster, the social network for dogs that began as a Friendster parody, has taken $1 million in angel funding. The investors include Michael Parekh, Joshua Schachter, Adam Beguelin, Michael Tanne, Jim Young, Mike Jones, George Sarlo, Frank Caufield, ...

Jonathan Abrams' social startup Socializr appears to have entered Gamma testing last week. The site promotes itself as a "free web service for sharing event and party information with your friends." So basically a similar idea to Skobee, ILCU and the...

NYC-based Broadtexter is a new service that allows musicians to send text alerts to fans using a module for MySpace. Artists and bands sign up with the service, then post the flash widget on MySpace, their own website or one of the hundreds of social...

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